(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, residents of Jeollabuk-do Province, citizens of Gunsan, My heart is truly filled with emotions today. Governor Song Ha-jin and Mayor Kang Im-june might feel the same way. Gunsan has come to embrace a spring of recovery and a leap forward. It has been five years since Jeol...

Feb 24, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 9th Cabinet Meeting. The situation in Ukraine is escalating into a serious crisis. Relevant ministries and agencies should swiftly and thoroughly cope with it by carefully monitoring our national security, the safety of Korean nationals there and the economic impact. I a...

Feb 22, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) The agenda item for today’s meeting is the welfare state. Here with us for presentations and discussions are three outside experts – President Lee Tae-soo of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Professor Kim Yeon-myung from Chung-Ang University’s School of So...

Feb 21, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) Good morning everyone. I am glad to meet you all. Foreign-invested companies are the Korean economy’s invaluable partners. The number of foreign-invested businesses currently operating here is around 16,000. Our country has been able to become one of the world’s top 10 economic p...

Feb 17, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) “Economic security” is the key topic of the rapidly changing international economic order. Trade tensions and competition to achieve technological supremacy are intensifying with the strengthening of state-centered nationalism. Major countries around the world are competing in earnest to reo...

Feb 14, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) I am glad to meet this group of “young adults about to become independent” who have been volunteering as “Pinwheel Supporters.” We are joined by others who have provided support to these young people. Thank you. Children protected in welfare facilities and those comin...

Feb 10, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) I welcome Minister of Foreign Affairs Son to Korea and Cheong Wa Dae. I wish success for the Second Southeast Asia Regional Program Ministerial Conference of the OECD set to begin this afternoon. I am grateful to Viet Nam, the next Co-Chair of the SEARP Steering Group, for sending a senior-l...

Feb 09, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) I welcome Secretary-General Mathias Cormann on your visit to Korea and Cheong Wa Dae. I congratulate you once again on your election as the OECD Secretary-General – the first to hail from an Asia Pacific country. The Second Southeast Asia Regional Program Ministerial Conference of t...

Feb 09, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 7th Cabinet Meeting. The presidential election is just a month away, and my Administration’s term will end in three months. As the situation has grown more serious due to the Omicron variant, the Government must fulfill its duty to protect the people’s lives b...

Feb 08, 2022

(Unofficial Translation) I am personally presiding over today’s meeting to call for an all-out response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 Omicron variant. As it has become the dominant coronavirus strain in Korea, we are seeing daily case counts break records every day. Amid this grave situation, it is difficult to ...

Feb 07, 2022